Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) provide high-quality patient care to ensure patient safety. Strict vigilance and prompt response is required of the CRNA to make critical decisions. Distractions during anesthesia delivery may threaten patient safety. Personal electronic devices (PEDs) have become an integral tool used by 90% of adults. Adaptation of PEDs has permitted their integ...

Mobile devices may act as support tools to achieve a balance between the technologic world and a physically active life, through the use of Mobile Fitness Applications (MFA), for example. However, keeping a long-term routine of exercising, even with the support of MFAs, demands high levels of motivation. In this paper we present an analysis of how MFAs with support for jogging and running have ...

We have employed flow cytometry (FCM) and cell sorting to quantitate and study megakaryocytes in mouse and rat femoral marrow following their 20- to 30-fold concentration by centrifugal elutriation (CE). This enrichment of megakaryocytes permitted the first determination of their DNA-related fluorescence by FCM analysis following DNA staining. Fluorescence distributions of CE-enriched cell frac...

Traditional medicine (especially ayurvedic medicine) was taken by Indian nationalismas a synecdoche for traditional culture. In the face of European claims for scientific andtechnologic pre-eminence, Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda,Radakrishnan, accepted European representations of Indian thinking as mystic andintuitive, to define it as distinctive of Indian ident...

Measuring plaster models by hand is the traditional method of assessing malocclusion. Recent technologic advances now allow the models to be digitized, measured with software tools, stored electronically, and retrieved with a computer. OrthoCAD (Cadent, Fairview, NJ) performs this service. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of the OrthoCAD system. Two independent examiner...

OPINION STATEMENT Cardiovascular disease affects more than a third of American adults and is the leading cause of mortality in the USA. Over the last 40 years, several behavioral and medical risk factors have been recognized as major contributors to cardiovascular disease. Effective management of many of these risk factors, particularly behavioral risk factors, remains challenging. With the gro...

The development of implantable devices for the treatment of tachyarrhythmias has resulted in additional therapeutic choices for the affected patients. Technologic advances now permit one to choose from a wide variety of devices capable of intervening automatically in the presence of supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias. Although all methods remain in the investigational stage at this tim...

A large, multidisciplinary symposium held at the National Institutes of Health in April and May 2009 brought together individuals from a wide range of scientific disciplines with the goal of promoting the nascent field of multimodality cardiovascular molecular imaging. This supplement to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine summarizes the presentations and discussions of that landmark symposium. The...

In order to respond to the technologic society expectations and satisfying the nowadays search of services who required a high spectral efficiency, emerge an interest about coherent optical systems, that allows multi-level modulation formats and digital signal processing. So, the study of performance of equalization algorithms at digital domain is essential in order to get the best solutions. T...

Municipal solid remains an issue that needs to be addressed globally towards a more circular economy and lower environmental impacts. In Colombia, over 96% of municipal wastes are landfilled, with little recycling or revalorisation several implications. With the technological development different waste-to-energy routes, energy is increasingly becoming attractive business opportunity. The poten...